Sentences with phrase «including greater public interest»

This rise of the environment as an election issue is due to a number factors, including greater public interest in environmental issues (such as global warming) and the appearance of green politics at the federal level.

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This takes divestment of fossil fuels beyond universities to include wider public interests wherever they exist in the Greater Toronto Area.

The Great Global Warming Swindle received critical response from the scientific community, including a letter to ABC that was signed by thirty - seven British Scientists who claimed «the misrepresentations of facts and views, both of which occur in your programme, are so serious that repeat broadcasts of the programme, without amendment, are not in the public interest.

He said that however one defines the energy - climate challenge, technology will be an important part of the solution — a solution that advances key public interests including reduced energy costs, greater energy efficiency and increased manufacturing productivity.

In addition to the Glickstein Award, which Perlmutter received in 2002, he has received many other honors for his advocacy, including the National Association of Counsel for Children's Outstanding Legal Advocacy Award, the Clinical Legal Education Association's Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Law Case or Project, the C. Clyde Atkins Civil Liberties Award from the Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the inaugural Miami - Dade County Children's Trust Champion for Children Award, and the Mental Health Advocate of the Year Award from the Florida Statewide Advocacy Council.

With the great majority of the public (including many individual lawyers) effectively unable to access the justice system because of cost and other barriers, and many lawyers seemingly undisturbed by that fact on a day - to - day basis, it's difficult to support an argument that we are operationally dedicated to the public interest.

Suburban REALTORS Alliance Position The Alliance is opposed to increases in the current transfer tax for the following reasons: 1) As the transfer tax is levied only on buyers and sellers of property, the burden per taxpayer is greater than the burden from a more broad - based tax designed to generate the same amount of revenue; 2) Since public transportation is a benefit that is open to all members of society, the charge should not be placed solely on buyers and sellers of property; 3) The transfer tax adds additional burdens on first - time home buyers saving for a down - payment and covering the closing costs and runs contrary to existing federal, state, and local programs including the mortgage interest deduction, low interest property maintenance loans, and grants to first time homebuyers; 4) A real estate transfer tax is a state and local tax assessed on real property when ownership of the property is exchanged between parties.